Although August was supposed to be slow, prudent finance teams have seen this month's surpisingly low rates as a reason to delay summer vacations and issue debt instead.
"Now's the time to be ramping up your effort" to obtain exclusions, said Jason Waite, a partner at Alston & Bird who leads the firm's international trade and regulatory group in Washington, D.C. But he warned that there are "still a lot of unknowns."